Miki Baird

Miki Baird

Miki
Baird

b. 1949     STUDIO IN KANSAS CITY, MO

Midwest Region of USA
For her photographic assemblages, Miki Baird layers and repeats images to create three-dimensional, undulating structures. The photos are taken by the artist, snapped on the streets in her everyday life or shot from the window of her car during her daily commute. She finds herself following unidentified people she encounters, using her camera to focus in on images of intriguing yet common moments that surround her.
 
In swatch…the weft and warp of red walker, Baird printed a selection of four frames in mass repetition, overlapping and arraying them to build up many layers and reveal the serpentine line pattern that the accumulated images generate. Mounting the layers on a flexible felt framework allows the artist to manipulate the topography of the work as well—raising, twisting, and compressing parts of the surface to create a rippling landscape that evokes drapery, a striated geological formation, or a flag.

My focus really is to find out what I get back from the photos. I’m looking for body gesture; I’m looking for something unusual or telling about the imagery. I feel very much that it’s a collaborative effort between me and the lens.

Miki Baird